Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-09-04
NORTH FORT WORTH.
A Present and Pressing Need that the
Town Lots be Placed on
the MAI eso
Tho Attractions offered to Home Seekers
and to Those Desiring to Establish
Factories or FounGries Eere.

Now that the hot days OF summer have
gone end the farmers in the north are
about through with their harvesting,
there sre many eyes turned to Texas, and
a considerable per centage OF the many
are on Fort Worth. Several Of the indus
tries set on foot by Fort Worth enter
prise during the spring and summer will
soon be in active operation, and others
are we'll under way. There is hardly s
vacant store in the city, and some OF
those being built, although month
| from completion, have already been
rented. 1t is difficult matter TO rent &
residence, Notwithstanding the active
building which has gone on
| for some time past. 1t is
plain that residence property withsas g
reasonable distance Of business is nearly
| impossible to find within the present caE-
porate limits, and therefore IL is that SO
10 lnY desire TO see the north side addi-
ti9n placed on the market. AS is we'll
known the Fort Worth City Company, in
corporated under the laws Of Texas, owns
| the body of land Immediately north Of the
city extending to and beyona the bluffs
three miles distant.
Owing to the conformation of the coun-
try about Fort Worth and the hitherto
Jack OF capital there has been an abnormal
growth of the city to the south. In some
cases workingmen are compelled to come
three miles to reach their work when
within s. stones throw of the heart OF
town is situated the land on which, in the
nature OF things, their homes should be
and would have been long ago il North
Fort Worth had been accessible. Nature
hiss done ell that she could do for this
addition, snd it requires but s small out
lay, comparatively, to bring this tract OF
over 400 acres of land worth st G low
estimate $500, 900, within the reach CT the
humble and the rich. With g front on
both the West Fork Snd the Trinity, from
which streams the laut gradually
rises until what nay be called the Iirst
terrace is reached. Again the land rises
gradually until the second terrace, then
the third and finally the bluff or ridge is
reach d. The drainage CT the entire
tract is perfect and no land in sDy city has
q better location for health, or one that
can be kept ClGsn so easily as this. The
possibilities in the way CT drives, be2uti-
full walks and boulevards ore unlimited.
WitG native trees of noble growth cover
ing G considerable portion with park Ike
openings OF prairie rich soil and ,Gbund-
arce of water il would be difficult indeed
to make to order more inviting place
for home. 1t is well known that on
this tract the very finest artesisn
wells we have are now dis
charging from depth OF 500 feet
the best Of water. The wells now on the
land would furnish water fer population
OF %, 600 people. The Fort Worth city
company has mad the Hand surveyed and
Laid cut for g city by the most experienced
| landscape engineer IN the country,s and the
practical az wei as the beautiful have
| been provided for by him in MS plans
! The City Council has given the company
g valuable franchise through the streets
| Of our city from the Union depot to the
river for the construction Of C cable or
dummy line, and with this built across
| the river and along the principal streets
OF the North Side, the company will 81
once lad purchasers at good prices for
their lots if trey will place them on the
market.
Not only is the North Side iavit-
/ ing for residences, but it possesses
/ all the requisites for the establishment O!
/ factories and fouudries OF every kind
! Thele are hundred sites along the river
! front for -four mills, iron and brass fOun
dries, tanneries, machine shops, cotton
and w0clen mills, wool securing works,
! harness factories, planning and saw mills
/ etc. Water at hand in abundance, faI
use IN the mills, and the river as dumping
ground for the refuse from the factories
! The St. Louis, Arkansas and Texas 8nC
the Fort Worth Western, right at the
! factory doors, the one penetrating the
/ pine forests and cotton districts OF the
state, the other reaching the coal and
mineral regions net sixty miles away
i Besides tines roads, the land is but mile
from the great trunk lines, the Atchis0n
! Topeka and Santa Fe, the Missouri
Pacific, the Fort Worth and Denver
The Texas and Pacific, the Fort Worth
and Rio Grande and Houston and Texas
| Central, all OF which are directly con
nected with the depots of the Cotton
| Belt. located on the land near the river
by the tracks of the ST. Louis, Arkansas
and Texas. Less than mile from the
center Of this tract to the northwest are
| located the Union stock yards tC
which all the railroads Will have tracks
and to which the cable or dummy line
mentioned will run. Every street lait
out By General Barrett, the landscape en-
gireer, can be sraveled at extremely
small cost, for right at the southern con
fines Of the land are inexhaustible bed:
Of river gravel in the Clear Fork
the property of the company
and the handsome and durable
streets OF Fort Worth attest the gooc
quality of this material. 1t is to *
hoped that the Fort Worth City Company
will, at an early day, Develop the plan:
laid out, for there is e present demsnC
for the land. To make very low esti-
mate, there sTe $500 building lots il The
tract, one-ha!f OF which could easily b,
sold 1T $500 sud the other half at 500
making total OF 81 260, 900, every dolia
CT which can be realized by the expendi
ture ot only small percentage OF tina
amount, Truly at inviting field for til
capitalists Interested in the company.
Mother and Cniid Burned.
CINCTSNATI ONO. Sent 2-Whil